Thonet - Chair (6) - Thonet nº 33 - Beech

We offer a very rare set of 6 Thonet chairs nº33 present in the "Casa Thonet" catalogue. All chairs are in perfect condition as shown in the photos. In the photographs you can see a chair with a lighter seat because it has been restored, the others have the original seat.
On all of them there is, under the seat, the brand as well as the label.
The backrest of the chairs is rounded with an ellipse-shaped motif inside joined to the backrest by 7 little olives.
The burnished beech shade is very pretty.

Michael Thonet is the inventor of the manufacturing process and design of bent beech furniture.
This type of processing represents one of the first examples of industrial production which continues today although in a different way.
Thonet furniture is born through a long and exhausting alternation of trials, experiments and errors.
Forging solid wood and giving it harmonious and articulated shapes was no small ambition; in his first experiments Thonet used strips of veneer and only after years of attempts did he come up with the idea of producing his furniture using strips of wood tied together.
These were softened in hot glue and, once extracted, were quickly folded by the workers and placed in cast iron molds to dry.
Once the desired shape was obtained, the various pieces of the chairs were assembled. Although initially protected by regular privileges, when these expired Thonet found himself surrounded by numerous entrepreneurs intent on producing bent beech furniture; the years of competition from now well-known brands such as Kohn and Fischel begin, companies which, to keep up with Gebruder Thonet, are called upon to make enormous investments in specialized manpower, machinery, tools and wood.
Thonet opens numerous factories and moves towards series production.
The models of competing companies are, at least at the beginning, an exact copy of the Thonet models and this makes it necessary to use brands burned into the wood and paper labels that attest to the authenticity of the product (experts have dated the different labels and are therefore able to determine the production period of apparently identical chairs but with different brands or labels) .
In fact, at the beginning of the twentieth century a long and fruitful collaboration began between the various companies and the main architects and designers, a collaboration that would give bentwood furniture new fortune; names such as Josef Hoffmann himself, Kammerer, Siegel, Kolo Moser designed and produced pieces that are still considered milestones in the history of design today.
Hotels, theatres, cafés, places of social and cultural meetings were soon furnished with the most varied models of bent beech furniture.

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